Moving Amy

12 - 18 June 2009
my move across the country

matt loaded the trailer twice! he wanted to make sure we were balanced. because of his amazing job we made it across the country without any problems.

ari, all packed up.

ben, all packed up

all packed up and ready to leave my parent's house

ben driving

melvin, ben's dad, dog sitting ari!

pennsylvania

ohio

what should we do in nebraska?

have breakfast and brush our teeth in a walmart parking lot! somehow it seemed like a normal thing to do at the time...

eat beef. do you think we were in cow country?

how did they get ari on the hill?

wyoming

welcome to nevada, almost home!

it took us three days to get from rochester, NY to montara, CA. we spent one night somewhere in wyoming. ben, ari, my car and trailer made it safely our across our very large country without any issues.

Mammoth Lakes, CA

May 21-25, 2009
backcountry skiing with ben and jonathan

if you look close, you can see a tiny black dot on the top of the peak. that is jonathan getting ready for his first run!

sun cupped snow

ben

ben and jonathan doing a map check

jonathan skiing

jonathan after skiing

my skis

amy and ben's favorite restaurant!!

Moving Nevermore

to her summer home

ken giving matt and his bike a ride in on the dingy!
nevermore is in the background at her new home.

a closer look...

A Week in California

montara/san francisco california
may 21-28, 2009
ari and i went to visit ben for a week!

ari's first plane

ari complaining that it was way to hot out.

ben and ari?

protesting our walk...

my new mountain bike!

ari meeting his first banana slug!

ben trying to figure out where we are going...
personally i love map breaks while cycling!

this is the largest banana slug ben and i have ever seen!

ari on the beach in montara.

Skinning Stowe

stowe, vermont
my favorite time of year to ski in new england is spring because the ski areas start to close parts of their mountains and ari can ski with me. on friday we went to skin/ski stowe. it was 60 degree and sunny!

my dynafit ripchick setup

ari and i had a lot of fun! it was a perfect afternoon.

cross country adventure - practice run

on tuesday morning i took the T to south station, then boarded a peter pan bus to amherst. i did not realize that it would take me two trains three buses and a mile walk in order to get to the subaru dealership to pick up andrea's car. after that i drove home, packed the car over a few day, and went to get ben at the airport for our cross country adventure.

andrea's car (aka - ben's new car)

all packed and ready to go. since this was the practice run i was allowed to make a few mistakes with regards to packing. notice the passengers seat will not go back, ops...

thursday morning 7:19am. leaving to get ben at the airport!

i liked the name of this gas station's mini mart!

ben sound asleep :) on friday morning

nebraska, what can we do here?

ski!!
the only thing missing was the snow...

ben favorite gas station. i think we were on the utah/nevada border?

we made it safely to tahoe on saturday. we had a lot of fun! i cant wait for the real cross country moving adventure!

Boston Sailing Center - Frostbite Racing

todays frostbite racing according to pete:

My thanks to Bruce, Andrew, Mairead and Amy today for a great job in
challenging conditions (Winds 17 with gusts to 22 per Logan tower).

We raced a total of (4) races and Won: 1, Lost: 3 for a Net of -2 ... Or
as Amy summed it up "we came in first in 1 and second in 3"... :)

No excuses however we had some tough competition with Dave Franzel and Dave
Carlson at the helms of their respective boats. Clearly they won the start
and then covered us...

Since the wind was out of the North today the course set was long W/L up and
down the harbor. In the first race the NS flag was not up however given
what we observed in high-winds from the J24s in from us both our boat and
the other Olsen we were racing elected NOT to fly spinnakers since we were
at closed to hull speed without them using wing and wing.

When the wind dropped a bit in the 4th race the NS flag went down. We had a
good start and tightly covered the other boat tack for tack most of the way
on the upwind leg. We set and flew the Chute well due to great crew work
and Bruce's trimming. We had great separation from the other Olsen on our
downwind leg and upon rounding the leeward mark had good douse and quite a
lead to the finish. It was a good feeling overall to have the last race of
the day be our best with each person contributing to our success.

Mairead sailed the boat home and gave us an introduction to acrobatic
tacking which given the banter on boat was enjoyed by all...

Unfortunately no seal sightings...

andrew and mairead

beautiful day!